Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AN OLD MASTER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE


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AN OLD MASTER, by                    
First Line: I saw a picture yesternight
Last Line: The white-pure moon looked out.
Subject(s): Beauty; Moon; Storms; Transience; Impermanence


I SAW a picture yesternight,
By a most ancient Master done;
Ah me! its beauty smote so bright
I saw it, and—'t was gone.

Dark were the woods, and dark the plain,
And dark clouds drifted all about,
When from a storm-heart rent in twain
The white-pure Moon looked out.





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